Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-07
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
Tie Movement OF Cattle Over the Fort
Worth and Denver Road
Has Fairly Begun.
Rates on Cattle Shipments Which Go Into
Effect on Tuesday Next-LOcaI
Notes-General News.

A bunch of ten fine mutton were sold to
local butcher yesterday. Sheep are IN
splendid condition.
The Missouri Pacific and Texas and
Pacific each took out three trains Of cattle
from Fort Worth yesterday.
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Tom Aston, the beef contractor on. the
Fort Worth and Denver, is on the market
for q carload or two of fat beeves.
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The movement of cattle over the Atchi-
son Gulf from Texas to the Indian Terri
tory and Kansas City will not commence
until June l.
The horse market was rather quiet yes
terday, but several heavy buyers are ex-
pected to be here next week who want
several carloads.
Corn & Wooten Of Tsrrant county
shipped thirty carloads of cattle over the
Fort Worth and Denver yesterday to Hen
rietta, where they will unload and drive
to the Indian Territory.
Colonel J. B. Simpson, Colonel Suggs
and w. R. Curtis, three of the most pros
porous and best known stockmen in the
country, were in Fort Worth last night,
having returned from trip into the Pan
handle.
London paper says that one of the
effects of the war scare on the continent
is an extraordinary demand for timed
meats. The German government
has bought up all the timed
meats held in Liverpool, as well az
large quantity due there; while the
French government mas concluded q con-
tract with a Chicago firm for 100000
pounds.
The Texas StOCkman and Farmer says:
owe suggest to our wool grower friends
of Hamilton county that another year
they emulate the example Of.the William
son county people and hold a gen.
eraI stock show. 1t will attract
more attention, and will tend to
interest owners Of other stock in sheep,
and owners of sheep IN other stock. In
other words, it will create tendency to
diversity the stock.
"There are q number of Texas counties
that would be benefited by combination
stock show, sale and picnic"
The benefits of feeding and variety
stock farming are thus set forth by the
Texas Stockmtn and Farmer: "During
his peregrinati ms over the country last
winter, our Feed Farmer got out of luck
as soon as he reached the ragged edge of
the stock farming counties. While there
was comparatively li'tly ready cash lying
around Loose in Texas anywhere, that
little seemed TO be in the pOCket of the
variety stock farmer-the man with a
few good horses, or mules, or beeves, or
muttons to sell, and the size OF his pile
was generally gagged by the amount of
feed he raised last year"
On Tuesday next, May 10, the new
rates on cattle shipments adopted by the
Texas Traffic Association at it's late meet
ing will go into effect. The rates are
to st. Louis: From Taylor to Denison
inclusive, SIS per car; south of Taylor,
including Cotulla, $50; south
of CotulIa, Ss5; Galveston
to ElBhsrt and points on the
Columbia division, $85; Palestine and
north, SIS; lakewood to Taylor, SIS;
Gainesville and west to DOss inclusive,
SIS; Henrietta, $3.50; Wichita
Falls, $50; Harold and Vernon,
So 90; Quanah, $50; San Antonio
and Uvalde inclusive $50, Victoria $50,
San Antonio and Beeviile inclusive and
Kennedy to CuerO inclusive and Boerne
COR from all points on the San Antonio
and Arkansas Pass lines) SO, Skidmore to
Gregory inclusive $50 so, Corpus Christi
S95, Morgan to BremOnd SIS, Hearne
to Denison inclusive $50, Bryan to Hous-
ton $50, Austin $50, Manor to Hampstead
S80.75, Garrett to Fort Worth So,
Faulkner to Roberts SIS. The rates to
New Orleans are the same as those to st. |
Louis from all the points mentioned eX-
cept from San Antonio to Uvalde, where
they ere $40 lower to New Or
leans. The st. Louis rates apply to East
St. Louis, Hannibal, Higbee, MOberly, |
Kansas City, Atchison, Cairo, St. joseph,
Junction City, Emporia. |
Memphis, Columbus, Ky Huntington,
Miss, and Vicksburg. To Chicago the |
rates are the following figures higher |
than to St. Louis: Horses, mules and |
cattle, $40 per car; sheep, siDgle-deck |
cars, 81, double-deck, $34. To Little |
Rock and Pine Bluff the rates are $40 per |
car less than to st. Louis, and to |
Omaha $40 more. The foregoing rates !
apply to twenty-nine foot cars aud cars
not exceeding thirty feet and six inches,
internal dimensions. For cars not in the |
list the following percentages will be
charged: Less than twenty-nine feet
"a per cent, over thirty feet 104 per |
cent, over thirty-two feet 107 per |
cent, over thirty-three feet 10
per cent. The dimension rules apply to |
beef as well as to stock cattle cars, within |
as we'll as out of the state. Rates on beef, |
cattle, horses, mules, sheep, hogs, |
calves and goats within the |
state will be made in cents |
per 100 pounds, rules for weighing other |
goods to apply. The minimum feed !
charges in Texas will be SIS per carload |
for everything except stock cattle, |
for which the charge will be 50 80. |
The rates on sheep from all points |
in the state to any outside |
point above mentioned will be SlOO per
carload. The railroads will Issue return |
passes to stockmen or their employees &C |
stock to destination; the same
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